Friday, December 18, 2009

Historic Tweets

When Obama appears on our TV screens in yet another baffling and tedious speech/lecture/kvetch we sigh, exhausted, because the Obama artifice is, by now, so naked, we marvel that his handlers don’t realize that Obama has become a poison pill for Obamism—a political and social philosophy that is, at best, at odds with classical American Judeo Christain values.

But when Sarah Palin simply Tweets—her death panel Tweet is now historic—people pay attention, people react, ordinary people take to the streets.

I'm just going to quit caring. I can't listen to the stupidity, the lies and the madness masquerading as governance any more.

Yglesias is right - procedurally, the nation has become ungovernable, in the sense that national elected leadership has become incapable of addressing serious problems and providing solutions. I can't imagine how bad things will have to get before the magnitude of the crises eclipses the power of the egos and the pettiness of the politics of personal aggrandizement.

The only reason the rest of the world isn't doubled over in laughter and shaudenfreunde at the triumph of greed and idiocy over democracy and human values is that they know without doubt that there still exists in Washington the will to unleash large scale death.